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    612-822-4611

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Paint It Black

Paint It Black

Fitch, Janet

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0316067148
ISBN13: 9780316067140
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Oct 3 2007
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright dreams all turn to black.

As Josie struggles to understand Michael's death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who blames Josie for her son's torment. Soon the two women are drawn into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence.

A dark, crooked beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order.-Los Angeles Times Book Review

Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . . Fitch's Los Angeles is so real it breathes.-Atlantic Monthly

There is nothing less than a stellar sentence in this novel. Fitch's emotional honesty recalls the work of Joyce Carol Oates, her strychnine sentences the prose of Paula Fox.-Cleveland Plain Dealer

A page-turning psychodrama. . . . Fitch's prose penetrates the inner lives of [her characters] with immediacy and bite.-Publishers Weekly

Fitch wonderfully captures the abrasive appeal of punk music, the bohemian, sometimes squalid lifestyle, the performers, the drugs, the alienation. This is crackling fresh stuff you don't read every day.-USA Today

In dysfunctional family narratives, Fitch is to fiction what Eugene O'Neill is to drama.-Chicago Sun-Times

Riveting. . . . An uncommonly accomplished page-turner.-Elle

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